After being trained in New York as photographer, Patrick moved to Paris in 1992. He has since pursued both personal and commissioned work and has become a reference in the field of art and design publications for institutions such as the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, as well as various museums. Patrick Gries has also captured the attention of famous luxury companies such as Louis Vuitton and Van Cleef & Arpels who commission him on various editorial books projects.
Over the past years he has authored art books such as Evolution, published with Editions Xavier Barral, in which he offers an atypical approach to viewing art and science. The typological black and withe photo series present skeletons of vertebrates as sculptures which forces us to reconsider the boundaries between artistic and scientific objects. Evolution has been acclaimed throughout the world and has now been on exhibitions in France, Denmark and Russia (Photovisa Krasnodar - October 2013) and has entered private art collections.
His project “In/Visibility” has been part of International Discoveries IV exhibition Fotofest/Houston-TX and was selected for a solo show at Lianzou (China), Festival de la Luz in Buenos-Ares in 2014 and presented in Copenhagen (Denmark) in January 2014.
“1987, God Save N.Y.C” is part of his early work, his first steps as a young photographer, documenting NYC night live. Never released before, focuses on NYC downtown nightlife during the year 1987 that marks a sharp transition from the glittering Eighties to the terrifying reality of AIDS and economy collapse.
Patrick Gries is represented by Museumsbygningen - Banja Rathnov Galleri & Kunsthandel – Copenhagen
Patrick is currently working on a new project « Topography of Fluctuant Surfaces and Spaces» and will be exhibited for the first time in early 2018 at Banja Rathnov in Copenhagen.